Words similar to arcana

Example sentences for: arcana

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(Which they've obviously rehearsed, since it includes such arcana as the provenance of the ochre used in the enamel-painting for Lepine watches in the 1840s.)
A front page WSJ feature looks past such arcana as pricing structures and inventory management to find a simpler reason why discount retailers consistently outperform traditional department stores: The former, but not the latter, provide customers with shopping carts.
But as I slavishly grind away at the keyboard coding my assigned arcana, I often observe my neuronic (or is it neurotic?)
The Alphabet Abecedarium is the bibliophile's answer to the botanist's stroll through the garden, being an eminently enjoyable omnium gatherum of recondite, recherché, and obscure arcana and lore about the letters of our Latin alphabet written in a light, conversational, self-deprecatory, tongue-in-cheek style.
Thus it is user-unfriendly of a dictionary—any reference book, in fact—to exhibit a style so involved as to be virtually unassimilable save by a dedicated, experienced few: except for the arcana, dictionary style should be revealed transparently to anyone picking up the book, and no one should be required to take a course in dictionary navigation or to spend half an hour adjusting his eyes to read reams of six-point type.